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From: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov (Oberman, Kevin)
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Subject: Re: Mailer Standards
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Date: 14 Apr 90 08:28:54 GMT
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In article <506@avcocan.UUCP>, bounder@avcocan.UUCP (Robert Story) writes...
>Where can I find out about mail standards?  I would specifically like to
>know about RFC 822 and MHS.  Is RFC 822 the standard that the Unix mail 
>system uses?  Perhaps, this should be a new book from Nutshell!

RFC 822 and RFC 1123 are the closest thing to standards that exist, but I've
never seen a Unix(tm) mailer that follows it completely. Most notaable is the
addition of fields to the header that violate the "standards".

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.